. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good morning to you. happy monday. i'm carol costello. we start with breaking news this morning. cycling's governing body today handed down a so-called death sentence to lance armstrong. the group stripped armstrong of his seven tour de france titles and banned him from the start. it follows the anti-doping agency finding of overwhelming evidence that armstrong doped. >> we are here to answer your questions and to say to the cycling community, uci is listening and is on your side. we have come too far in the fight against doping to return to our past. cycling has a future, and something like this must never happen again. >> but that's not all. another sponsor, oakley sunglasses, announced it will no longer sponsor lance armstrong. bill strickland is bicycling magazine's aeditor at large and author of tour de lance. it's mind boggling, this colossal fall. >> inevitable at this point. but mind boggling when you hear the words. the seven tours, look at what he has won. now just a handful of races. it's going to be tough for people to deal with from h